Bonkers Blog June 2014

If
you live in the deprived North West corner of Bexley one of the things you have
to get used to is no Refuse Recycling Centre. If you need to get rid of
something that won’t go in the bin you have the choice of going as far east as
you can without being in Dartford, or as far south without crossing the border
with Bromley and the cost in time and fuel rarely makes that wothwhile. Is it any wonder that the area is
blighted by flytippers?
In the whole of my 27 years living in Bexley I have not once been to either of their recycling centres.

I went to Bromley’s once (with a Bromley residents rubbish) and wasn’t asked for
any ID but Greenwich council which has a dump in Abbey Wood are wise to such things.
Personally I find that everything goes in the wheelie bin if you chop it up small enough.

But in two weeks time Sidcup residents will know what it is like to live in
Abbey Wood, on Wednesdays anyway. From that day the Footscray dump will operate
a six day week. It is
part of the budgetary cuts
recently
agreed in council with which you apparently wholeheartedly agreed.